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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-07

If Col. Fred Grant had not been
nominated for Secretary of State by the
New York Republicans the country
would never have known through the
Democratic press what a rascal (?) he is.
AS soon as man ventures upon the
Republican ticket he becomes a target
for all the meanness and utilization and
falsehood the Democratic editors can
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-07

1T Is given out at Washington that the
President will call an extra session of
Congress about Nov. LIST. Perhaps it
will be good thing as the legislators
will then have a chance to get settled
down and do some business before the
holiday vacation
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-07

THE Presidential tsa eft Washington
Friday, and is hoenog along toward
the "rowdy West a lively rate. We
hope Grover won't base IA attack of the
lock-jaw as he gapes he sights which
are new to him.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-07

NTiNSION LODGE.
VI M. ~, l. o. G. T. meets every Friday
evening, la their Hall i6mo
rs. WEYMOUTH, W. CT.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-07

FSAPrISrCHURCH. W. ". Whitney
A. Pastor. Services every sabbath al
lh:S' a tn aud 1880 p. IN. Young peoples
Nesting at so D. IN. sabbath school at i2.Ol
u. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening
at 1889 D IN. Covenant meeting on Thursday
evening before the tirst Sabbath In each
month.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-07

nUR SAVIOR'S EVANGELICAI.I .UTH-
~ ERAN CHURCH, corner Pleasant and
Carroll Str. Morning services begin at I0:3O:
evening services at $50. Sunday school meets
At } p m. REV. A. G. II. OYvRRN, Pastor.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-07

WELSH CALNANISTIC METHODIST
w church Located ON State st. Services
very Sunday 10 n. ~, .. y. IN, : y. IA. A cord
al Invitation extended 10 all.
Rev. j. 4. JONES. Pastor
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-07

Collections invaribly RENTED ON the day Of
payment.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-07

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
~ sunday services in Congregational church
Rev. h. A. Bushnell, pastor, loh o'clock A.
N. aud ~ p. NJ. Sunday school at ~ O'Clock.
weekly prayer meeting on Thursday evening
ltTH O'Clock. Allare Invited 10 attend.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-07
N. JOHNsl EFIsCOPALl ChURCH.

~ Cor Warner and Broad SITS. Service
every sunday at 1880 A. N. and ! go p N
Evening Prayer every Friday at 1850 u.
Rev. 4. &. Hudson, Rector.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-07
MANKATo FREE Pass.
FGFRs--$l.5O per AMum in AdVanGG.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Corner Hickory and Broad streets.
Services Sunday mourtngs at 1880, eve
nings at 5:SG. Prayer meeting at 1880 Thurs
day evening. Seats free. strangers are
cordially Invited
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27
A Sad Sight.

Oau slight.
washington Chronicle.
One Of the saddest sights we ev.
er witnessed was on the Georgia
train the other day. A young
married woman was being carried
to the asylum. Her ravings were
nsart-rending. Oae moment she
imagined she was being starved
to death. and would cry fer some
thing to eat, and would give Or
ders for handsome dinners to be
served Immediately. The next
instant she would think she was
queen OF Spain, and the passen-
gers her subjects. Then without
any cause she would commence to
curse her husband, using the most
terrible language towards him
We understand that before she
became crazy she was a most de-
won't christian and that her hus-
band is a most upright man
In most every respect. The hus-
band bore her reproaches with
the most perfect patience, yet any
one could see that every word was
stab. Such scenes as this, one
never forgets, AMI demonstrates
that every mans lot in life is not
as hard as that Of some of his
neighbors. If we knew each 9th
ers troubles, as well as our own,
there wonld be more charity in
the world.
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27
Disabled Soldiers.

We take pleasure in giving cir
culation to the following, from
the Atlanta Constitution, for the
information of those concerned:
The Executive Department has
been flooded with letters of late in
regard to the bill at the session
of the last Legislature which pro-
vided fer the relief OF disabled
Confederate soldiers other than
those who lost an arm or leg in
service. 1t is greatly desired that
the ordinaries of the various
counties should let it be under
stood in their localities that there
is at present absolutely no law in
existence to the above effect. The
bill alluded 10 was strongly sup
ported at the last session, but fail
ed to 60 through. It passed the
House and reached the Senate. but
was never actedon by that body,
but, among a number of other
bills, wss laid aside to be consid-
cred at the July session, when the
chances are good that it may be-
come law, but there is now none
of the kind on the statute books,
nor can there can be possibly till
the Legislature meets again and
considers the matter, which will
not happen before July. 1t would
save much needless work and the
answering of myriad of useless
questions il these facts in relation
to the matter could be well under
stood by the parties concerned.
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27
ELI PERKINS SHOWED UNDER.

Columbus Equirer Sun.
According to the Birmingham
Age reporter of that paper nam.
ed G. II. Richardson, while going
to his boarding house on Wednes-
day night, was knocked down,
chloroformed, and robbed Of $50
and revolver" We sympathize
with MIR. Richardson and trust
that the robbers may lie captured
and the property recovered.
But did this really happen? the
story has an arabian Nights"
tinge about it, that staggers ere
dulity at the start. A reporter
with S55 in his pocket, going non
chalantly along the street at night.
Great Jehosaphat! Was he treas
urer Of the paper, as we'll as a re-
porter? Was he on the staff at
the time of the robbery, or bad
he resigned after c.ming into pos
session OF the $55? Surely he
didn't intend to keep on shaving
his life away as q reporter when
he had $50. The probabilities are
that Wednesday is pay day with
the Birmingham papers; that the
robber knew it and laid for the
young man, and they got 55 cents,
the dollar mark having been put
in thoughtlessly by the compost
tor. If Mr.. Richardson really
was reporter aud really had s55
he ought to be posing in museum
as a curiosity and selling his pho
tograph to the illustrated papers
instead of working for a living.
There is some things that even q
c~edulous public connot believe
or conceive. One of these things
is reporter with SIS. Why, if
this story about Reporter Rich
sons having S55 were to be believ-
ed throughout the country, in less
than a week Birmingh I'm would
be full of journalists that it would
be easier for a man to climb over
q block of buildings than to elbow
his way around it. A reporter
with S55! Eli Perkins has been
showed under at last
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27
Cowboy Romance.
n. o. States.

n. O. States.
Two boys in st. Louis, one four
teen and the other fifteen years
of age, who had g wild desire to
become cowboys and exterminate
Indians in Texas, were collared by
a policeman as they were in the
act of boarding a train for San
Antonio and rudely walked off to
jail. The lads were equipped
with rifles, pistols, bowie knives,
bull whips and somobreros, and
other things necessary to the
slaughter of the willy savages that
rove around the bar rooms in from
tier towns of Texas. There is far
more romance in the idea than
in the following of q cowboys ca
reer and the boys would have
been taught very good lesson,
and perhaps it would have been
better fol them, in the long run,
had they been allowed to go upon
their journey, because after they
had reached Texas and made their
acquaintance with a bow-legged
cow-pony and been dragged
through prickly pear thickets and
slammed down on a hard, bald
spot in the prairie, in a way pc
culiar to the cow-pony, they would
have sent soma very earnest pc
titions to their friends to bring
them home. Texas cow-ponies
have rendered valuable service in
jolting the romance out of refrac-
tory youths who left their parents
to become scouts and tarrors Of
tue border, and the hardy little
animals will always do the good
work whenever they have an OF =
portunity. Nothing gives them
more pleasure than to make an
embryo desperate feel as if he
had dropped out OF u balloon, aud
to them is due the credit Of turn
ing into the paths of rectitude
and industry hundreds OF youths
who were .,.ng astray.
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27
WARRANTS WITHDRAWN.
Richmond Coats and Henry Cuyler
Released.

Albany News.
Richmond Coats and Henry
Cuyler, who, together with Joe
Henry Watson, were recently ar
rested upon warrants charging
them with arson Tin connection
with the Academy and Barnes
House stable fres), were relecs-
ed, yesterday morning, the war;
rants against them being with
drawn.
Richmond Goats did not get lib
Grated from Jail, however,as he was
out on bond on another case, and
his bondsman carue off his bond,
when he was arrested upon this
last charge. 1t remains to be
seen whether he will be able to
make his bond good again.
Joe Henry Watson, who had
his commitment trial before JUS
tice Greer, and was bound over, is
now the only one who stands char
ged with arson in connectin
with the recent incendiary fires
which had our city in a state of
uneasiHess and excitement few
weeks ago. His trial will not
come off until the April term Of
the Superior Court.
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27
A Good Stnry,

They tell story ola local news
paper man that illustrates his
presence of mind even under the
most trying circumstances. He
was awakened in a hotel one night
by the cry of"ire, and in spring
anu two movements was out of the
bed and in the hall, which was
filled with smoke. Just ahead OF
him was a flying figure, clad in
white like himself, and running at
2:10 clip. A turn in the long hall
and two steps leading to a higher
level brought the figure up, or
rather down, aud the same cause
precipitatsd the newspaper man
against her. LETS pray" erie l
the afrighted woman, as she clasp
ed him by the arm. ono, let's
run" was his reply, and putting
her once more in the right direc-
tion, the lady was soon far ahead,
though her rescuer got out in
plenty of time. The two never
saw each other again, but their
first and only meeting must heav-
idly impressed itself upon the
mind Of each. From the Buffalo
COuriAr
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27
STABBED wITH sHEAEA
A DESPERATE WOMAN KILLS EEy1
OF HER cHrLDRRN.

4
CLRyRLHsD, O.. January, W.-s
James Cabal+ke is . well-se de
carpenter. His VIE was ont os
temper at the breakfast table sam
morning and refused to talk -
her husband. After he and ais
oldest son went to work. the
mother sent two sons, aged fous~
teen and fifteen, on errandA
When they returned they soai0
not get into the house. In shs
back yard they found q ycungee
brother bleeding from msnt
wounds. They speedily called
help and broke into the house and
found their two little sisters, aged
five and three, and a brothers
aged three montha, dead from
many slabs. A girl Of eight waa
seriously hurt, and she, with the
boy found in the back yard, win
probably die. A bloody pair Of
shears told the story. A huns
was made fer the mother. She
was found in the cellar hanging
from q rafter dead. She had kill
ed her three children, mortally
injured two Others and had then
suicided. The two children who
were still alive were removed to q
neighbours house. No cause foe
the terrible deed is given. Tha
husband does not think that bio
wife was insane.
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27
The Next Crop.
Menroe Advertiser.


Menroe Advertiser.
Every man who proposes 10 oslS
tivate crop this year, knows noW
what means he has at command Ia
meet the actual expenses of .culti-
waiting that crop; he knows how
many head of pillow stock he has
or can pay for now; how much
corn and other forage. he has 10
feed these stock; whether or not O
sufficiency; he knows how much
provisions or its equivalent he
has to furnish to his employeess
he also knows how much cash he
has in hand to meet the actual 10
cidental expenses which will ak-
tend the cultivating of that crop.
Knowing these facts, he knowe
his financial ability as a farmer.
and can therefore circumscriba
his farming programme, and bring
it within his means. IL he haA
the means to meet the demands oe
a large farm and the capacity 10
manage it to a successful issue.
let him plan accordingly. If he
has only means sufficient to MAIN
tain one-horse crop, it is not in
accord with perfect safety to reach
beyond this in his farming pro-
gramme. For whenever farmer
reaches beyond his power, and
takes upon himself a crop, the en-
pense OF which exceeds his own
capital, he is then forced to call
on another for aid, which call, IL
answered, places himself under,
and his crop virtually in the handS
of him who aids, and thereby
takes from the farmer that indo-
pendent management OF his cron
products which should ever be ro-
garded and held as sacred and an
inaliensble right For in this way
hundreds of farmers cotton have
been placed under forced salea
upon depressed market, and lose
has accrued. Far better is it for
any man to farm on a small seSle
independent of outside help thaD
oR large scale, and thereby sub
ject himself to the beck and calA
of others.
Therefore. if any Of our farmew
readers have hitherto been carryp
ing farm burden too weighty foy
their means, better to drop pare
of the burden; it they have been
farming on scale not commeD-
surate with their capital, better
reduce to smaller territory, ana
in this way keep out of the handle
of creditors. Indeed, commos
sense dictates that it is decidedly
better for any farmer to come ints
market with four bales of cotton
unencumbered by debt, than 10
come in with fifty bales covered
with Judgments, executions and
mortgages.
Hence, in planning now for
your crop operations during the
year, plan according to your
means now in hand, and not 40
cording to the means that you en-
poet to realize in the future.
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27
A CHASTITY Fireplace.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

rttsDurg Dlspatcn.
A Southside physician mas capped
the climax ofsuggestions. He
is something of an artistin model
lug clay, and after he got his Of
fee supplied with natural gas he
made a cast of a skull. The
thing is horribly natural, even to
the sutures across the skull, and
one tooth knocked ont. This is
set mp in the CRATE in such 4 way
that the blush crimson flames Of
the burning gas steal through
the eyes and nostrils and filter
playfully around the CHASTITY jaws.
Little Jets of hams fash through
between the sunken jaws and
tighten up the bony countenance,
heated to a white-rel heat in a
manner horribly suggestive of
other fires, which are said to burn
but not consume.
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27
\ Captains Fortunate Discovery

Capt. Coleman, schooner Wey.
mouth, plying between AtlanHe
City and New York, had bean.
troubled with cough 80 that be-
was unable to sleep, and was in.
duced to try DIR. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption. Ii NOS
only gave him instant relief, bus
allayed the extreme soreness 10.
his breast. His children were
similarly affected ana a single
dose Ind the same happy effect.
DR. Kings New Discovery ia now
the standard remedy in the Cole
man household AMI on board the
schouner.
Free Trial Battles OF this Stand
ard r medy at Cl0uch Bros. DroE
GtNsu
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27
Consumption can be Cure.

DR.. j. S. COMBS, OwensviIlo
Ohio, says: 81 have given SCOTS
Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with
Hypopaophltes to four patients
with better results than seemed
possible with any remedy. All
we're hereditary cases Of Lung dis
ease, and advanced TO that stage
when Coughs, pain in the chest,
frequent breathing, frequent
pulse, fever and Emaciation. All
these cases have increased in
weight from 10 to rs lbs, and are
not now needing any medicine. l
prescribed no other Emulsion Of
Cod Liver Oil with Hypophohi-
tes, Lime, and Soda, but Scots
believing il 10 be the beet"
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27
A W0MAN'S PORTRAIT.

p, ,es she Isl God made her so,
ana a "a deeds OF weekday holiness
r. Eau from her noiseless as the snow.
Tor has she ever CHANGED to know
mat auglt were easier than to bless.
She is most fair, and thereunto
der life doth rightly harmonic:
r E4eellng or thought that was not true
Ne ne er MADE less beautiful the blue,
onclouded heaven of her eyes.
M me IS a woman; one in whom
Inc Inc spTing-time of her childish years
LAS never lost its fresh perfume.
!, nough knowing we'll that life hath room
cor many blights and many tears
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27
MR.. MITeHELL's FREAK.
HE WAS AN INTERESTED LISTENER
AT MS OWN FUNERAL.
From the Hartford Timea

HE WAS AN INTERESTED LISTENER
AT HIS OWN FUNERAL.
From the Hartford Times.
In the Southbury cemetery
stands q monument erected years
ago t. a resident of this town
! named Mitchell. Not only gas it
erected to him, but by him, for he
had no intention of leaving this
world without making all arrange
ments in which he felt he might
be interested. It was o handsome
monument for those days, for Mr..
Mitchell had money enough to
match his eccsntricities, but he
wasn't contented with the PLAIN
marble. He went to work ON it
himself All - iorEed il wish an
outstretched hGli, grapevinss and
other devices. ..aen he wanted to
add a picture of himself, but he
had to get a sculptor to do that
part of the work for obvious rea-
sons. About that time Lorenzo
Dow, the famous and eccentric,
paid a visit to Southburry, and
what followed is cherished as q
village tradition.
Mr.. Dow was engaged by Mr..
Mitchell to preach his funeral
sermon. Mitchell wanted to enjoy
an unusual luxury, and to make
the scene all the more realistic he
had a grave dug beside his monu-
ment in White Oak Cemetery.
The sermon was preached at the
rising of the day star, but one
part of the programmes was omit
ted. The story goes that Mitch
ell had set his heart upon lying
in his coffin at the bottom of the
grave while Lorenzo Dow was
speaking, but he gave that up be-
cause somebody told him that if
he once got into his coffin the
earth would be thrown in upon
him. On the night before the
premature funeral some mischief
maker smeared with tar the lower
part of Mitehelrs marble face on
the monument. Hog bristles
stuck in it recklessly made a sort
of beard, hirsute adornment in
pdiar9nate~i thase tipsaa, -hnt--in-.
du,ged in by both Dow and Mitch
ell. But the trick was discovered
in time, the monument was clean
ed, and the services took place at
the hour appointed. Crowds OF
people came to see an hear, and
the preachers address was want
ing in none of the energy he threw
into everything he did. 1t was a
big day for Mitchell and all the
rest of Southbury.
One interesting piece of orna.
mentation has been removed from
the monument, which no longer
bears the head of the man it COM
memorates. It would be we'll
worth seeing if it emily remained.
But it doesn't, and, like Lorenzo
Dow, Mitchell will have to depend
upon the fame OF his deeds 70
keep himself from being forgot
ten by the resident, Of the town
he once made lively.
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27

therefore, best not to marry a
yonng and Eighty girl. I also
think there should be some law to
prevent coachmen from being i'm
posed on.
have seen men live to regret
marrying an old maid. Never do
so only under protest.
Some men marry on $500 Per
week, and expect their wives to be
angels and fit around at 80 much
per fit, milk three cows, saw
stove-wood, draw water aud hoe
over the garden; but when the
real life comes they find their
mistake.
Never marry a fashionable girl.
/ have seen girls who were con-
sidered the m,ss fashionable in
their set, but when yon look in
upon them at the back gate you
will find that the fashion consists
of straw hat that her grand
mother wore and mernlng wrap
per with q brick on each corner to
keep the wind from disarranging
her toilet.
The best kind of girl to marry
is a regular old Georgia girl; one
reared on the farm; one that can
cook meal so good that it would
make a telephone hungry; one
that can sew on a button, darn
socks and darn the husband for
making the darned holes; one that
will he of some use to you, and
one that has never seen a piano
or danced at german, or sung at
public entertainment. When
you find such a girl think your
years will be as great as Methuse-
labs.
have seen detectives hunting
for just such girls, bat they all
seem to be lost in the far-offness
of the hense. Some will say,
"Well, my mother was just such
woman" out, my son, you cannot
marry your mother.
Love is a very funny thug.
When a fellows honeymoon is
over, and he sits around the fire
with sixteen kids and wife with
scah on her nose, and the butch
er comes to collect iais bill With q
dog and n double barrelled gun,
then he will think Of the many
single-barrelled days he has spent,
and the moisture will gather in
his eyes and he will rake down in
the ashes and scrape up potato,
give his wife the peel and think
what sacrifice he made when he
married. When all is still, he
slips out in the cleaning and
gloams up town to the Club"
Such is life, and still we are in
the midst of anarchy and stom-
acbache.
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27

The Middle Georgia Progress
10 the name of a new paper to be
published at Sandersville. Mess.
Stephen G. Jordan and G. Fl.
Mitchell are to be the editors.
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27

The denizsns of the frigid re-
sions now winter in California
instead of Florida, and the hotel
keepers in the last named State
ara complaining.
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27

Before you 60 to bed at night
always be sure that your trout
gate is open across the sidewalk.
II may not break the ribs of some
belated pedestrian, but it may
succeed in hurting him badly. By
all means leave your gate open.
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27

A one-leggsd preacher in a
Georgia town upbraided a young
man for carrying a gold-headed
cane There are no goll-headed
canes in heaven" said the man of
God. "No, and there are no
wooden-leggsd preachers there,
either" was the crushing rejoind-
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27

Montana is credited with 10000
h.chelors. We know some wo-
man who might make profitable
trib there.
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27

Tho famous belled buzzard, 80
often reported as having been
seen 10 Georgia, was shot and
killed the ether day in Tunis,
Texas. The bell was of brass,
fastened around the neck by a
copper wire and bore date of
1876.
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27
Cure Cor sIck Ilenelache.

For proof that DIR, Gums Liv-
err Pills cures Sick Headache, ask
your Druggist for a free tria,
package. DULY one for a dose.
Regular size boxes, rs cents. Sold
by W. G. Kendr;ck.
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27

gmithvilIe has organized
brass band and is prepared to
oaperate her wind music at home.
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27
PIouAST POINTS

Texas has a paper called the
Bedbug.
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27

The Newman advertiser is re-
sponsible for the subjoined para
graph: There is revival going
on in the northern part of the
State and each convert gets Wa
terbury watch, The plan works
all right until they come to wind
them, and then they backslide."
The Dawson journal., 1887-01-27
Men We're Gay Deceivers Ever.

"Ah, madame" he said, as he
extended hand to help her up,
Il never saw more graceful fall.
You threw up your arms like a
born actress. your little feet in
dulged in q shuttle, and down you
settled with a swan like move
ment which was superb"
Really. sir?"
Honest InjuD, madame"
And he picked up a No. 7 rub
Der which had been flung from
her left foot, turned her back to q
dent in the snow which looked as
if a cottage had been upset there
and raising his hat and making a
profound bow, he took his leave,
while she got aboard street car
and continued to blush and smile
for sixteen blocks. Detroit Free
Press.